Brother Eric Basir

An inconvenient and annoying ATU Local 308 Executive Board Member. Preacher of Revolutionary Unionism. Drug-tested. Feared. Uncompromising. Black Joe Hill.

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

Witness one unlettered union rep battle his employer’s chief attorney regarding FOUR Unfair Labor Practice charges regarding alleged union busting at the Chicago Transit Authority.

May 7th at 9:30 am.

See the 5/5 update at my blog for the link: https://t.co/LqiBOYfb6y

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

Check out Eric B For Local 308 President's video! #TikTok https://t.co/itoDYPBH54

[Cta Worker @CTAexposed]

Transit Worker Appreciation Day is today March 18! Join us in celebrating our hard-working transit workers! We deserve sick pay in the 2027 contract !!! It its good enough for Nora and Upper Management, its good for us front line workers as well and plus its the LAW
#TWAD

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

Looking forward to this

[Chicago Transit Justice Coalition @JusticeTransit]

Next Sunday. Unofficial. Uncensored. Unapproved. Public transit workers in Chicago are speaking up and telling the Truth about what is really going on. @BlockClubCHI @ctaaction @Suntimes @WBEZ @labormedia1 @labornotes @ABC7Chicago @WGNNews @CTAConfession @Chicago_Reader

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

The latest in Chicago Transit Authority union busting: Mismanager kicked me out of a disciplinary hearing

https://t.co/k1QX3WXMFu

[Streetsblog Chicago @streetsblogchi]

We got a nice note about our interview with self-described "inconvenient" transit union leader Eric Basir.
https://t.co/juDQpKVSem @EricBasir308

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

Let's liberate Local 308 from CTA control!

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Greta Thunberg answering the question: Why are so many governments around the world ignoring what is happening in Gaza?

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

We need to delete the waiver that was snuck into our contract. CTA workers deserve #PaidSickLeave

Read the secret waiver in its entirety: https://t.co/hPhHxlFPXa

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

The outlaw behavior of some of the managers I deal with is astonishing. Our unions are busted. Nearly every single fellow union official is totally compromised. @JusticeTransit

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

I know exactly how you feel.

[RJ Palmer @arvalis]

My sister killed herself last night. She was 33. I am not looking for a bunch of "I'm so sorry" type messages or anything of that sort. An acknowledgement is enough.

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

Sexual harassment and union-busting are important tools for CTA mismanagement in their mission to destroy public transportation in Chicago. The employee appreciation parties and trinkets are essentially mole recruitment and threat isolation. Hate me. I don’t care.

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

CTA Workers are punished when they get sick!

https://t.co/OsgxdrsSdL

@JusticeTransit @CTAexposed @ctaaction @BlockClubCHI @Suntimes @ChicagosMayor @GovPritzker @ATUComm

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

@fixthecta_CDSA @JusticeTransit @ctaaction @CTAexposed

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

Almost EVERY SINGLE WRITEUP I dealt with as a union rep would not exist if the worker had the state-mandated #PaidSickLeave

Does the new CTA president know?

@JusticeTransit @ctaaction @CTAexposed @fixthecta_CDSA @BlockClubCHI @ChicagosMayor @Suntimes @inthesetimesmag @srfreish

[Brother Eric Basir @EricBasir308]

@streetsblogchi @kambucknerchi @senvillivalam @ctaaction @activetrans @GovPritzker @yfreemark This philosophy totally ignores the REAL elephant in the room: WORKING CONDITIONS. Not one thing @kambucknerchi mentions here will solve the problems of blatant union-busting, deadly working conditions, poverty-time jobs and abuse—which is at the root of CTA mismanagement.